Description

GRAVELEY CHURCH LANE
TL 2327 (North side)

12/6 2 Barns and linking lower building,
11.2.74 70M to SE of Graveley Hall Farmhouse
(formerly listed as Two Barns to
south of Graveley Hall Farmhouse)

GV II

2 barns and linking lower building. Eastern barn C16, W barn
stylistically C17 but dated 1717, C19 linking building. Timber frame on
tarred brick sill, dark weatherboarded with steep pitched roofs, now
slated but W barn corrugated aluminium. A tall 3-bays barn on the left
of the gateway to the yard in front of the house, a tall 5-bays barn a
little to the NW, and a low open-fronted building linking the two. All
face N. The C16 barn has central double doors, a high single door at
rear of middle bay, low external lean-to at W end, jowled posts,
mid-height rail, clasped-purlin roof with 2 purlins in each slope, the
upper clasped by collars, the lower on inclined straight queen-posts
with enlarged heads. Long straight tension braces in walls and
edge-halved scarf joints with bridled butts, in wallplates. Larger barn
has inscription on post facing central threshing bay 'JOHN/CHAKLY/MAY.I/
1717' and 'JC 1717' carved on the tie-beam. Small rear outshut to
central bay. Jowled posts, mid-height rails, straight tension braces
above the rail, long straight braces to tie-beams, clasped-purlin roof,
upper purlin clasped by collars, lower clasped by inclined heavy
straight queen-posts. Called the 'Pig Barn'. Face-halved bladed scarf
joints.

Listing NGR: TL2345628064

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26396599

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Recommended Books

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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)